I'm currently workin on the FROB (Apple II/Atari VCS board) and trying to get all my files easily reachable. So far I'm not quite there.
How do I get ProDOS.sys onto my 32M Apple disk image so it boots into ProDOS?
I'm new to ProDOS, I've downloaded ProDOS 2.4.3 and I can boot the image from my A2retronet card (Total Replay setups the disks). I have one image (Frob-GameDev.po) that the A2retronet doesn't like (the only dubdir that works is the FROB dir). What I'm attempting to do is build a image that has ProDOS, COPYIIPLUS.8.4 & BASIC.SYSTEM and the contents of the FROB and EDASM directories. I'm getting quite a bit confused as I'm not used to using the Apple II with ProDOS.
Download and install CyderPress. Then run two instances. In the first instance create a new 32 MB ProDOS volume. In the second instance simply open ProDOS_2_4_3.po downloaded from prodos8.com. Then simply copy files from the second instance and paste them into the first one.
ProDOS must be the first file in the root directory. When booted it'll execute the first .SYS file it finds.
I used the Linux _sc version and created a new hdv, copied over the files and it appears the entire disk is happy again. Odd the original does have some issues. I'll get rid of that so as not to lose my mind.
Nah. PRODOS.SYS can be anywhere in the root directory.
That is correct. The only time order matters is when it comes to files ending on .SYSTEM, since ProDOS will run the first file ending on .SYSTEM when booting. So if you plan to add BASIC.SYSTEM for example, you must first add QUIT.SYSTEM, so that you get the menu when booting. If you don't, you will always boot in ProDOS Basic and will have to type BYE to get the menu.
It is also important not to confuse SYS file types with files ending on .SYSTEM. There is no PRODOS.SYS - the file is called PRODOS and its file type is SYS. In the Apple II world we don't append the file type to the filename like in the PC world.
You can have it run a BASIC program upon booting too. Assuming BASIC.SYSTEM has loaded it looks for a file named STARTUP and runs it if it exists.
Okay just learned why we have quit and basic.system. Thanks, I didn't know that. :-)
I'll give them a try today.